Ban Fracking in the Democratic Party Platform

Fracking is a type of drilling that injects millions of gallons of hydraulic fluids — a mixture of chemicals, water and sand — into a well to create pressure that cracks open rock underground, releasing natural gas or oil. This process can deplete and contaminate local water, damage the environment and threaten public health.

The fugitive methane pollution from the hydrofracturing process is accelerating global warming. On a national scale, a growing body of scientific evidence is building that the climate benefits of switching from coal to natural gas were a total mirage, with the catastrophic Porter Ranch methane blowout the most visible and extreme example of a nationwide surge in methane leakage as a result of the domestic fracking boom promoted by the Bush and Obama administrations. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a twenty-year timespan.

The Democratic Party needs to take a clear stand against dirty energy and for a climate-safe future - the party platform should call for an immediate moratorium on fracking everywhere.

To Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC Chair and Delegates of the 2016 Democratic National Convention:

Make a ban on fracking for natural gas an official plank of the 2016 Democratic Party platform.

I just called on Democrats to ban fracking in the Democratic Party Platform!

joe buglione signed
2016-07-08 08:10:16 -0700

Marsha Sherman signed
2016-07-08 08:03:58 -0700

It should not be a moratorium. We should be banning the destructive act of drilling and drilling into the only planet we can live on, increasing the chances not only of poisoning our waters, our estuaries, but increasing earthquakes. The warmed temperatures in the Arctic has already caused rising ocean waters. This must stop entirely, and we can only pray at this point that it will make a difference.

sara shaw signed
2016-07-08 08:02:17 -0700

Catherine Crow signed
2016-07-08 07:59:27 -0700

joyce niksic signed
2016-07-08 07:50:30 -0700

Daniel Schwartz signed
2016-07-08 07:49:44 -0700

Barry Clemson signed
2016-07-08 07:40:51 -0700

Gene Binder signed
2016-07-08 07:37:14 -0700

Kristin Loken signed
2016-07-08 07:32:40 -0700

Sandy Rasich signed
2016-07-08 07:27:10 -0700

Fracking is toxic, it must be stopped. We have cleaner options for energy.

Anne Graydon signed
2016-07-08 07:21:11 -0700

julia berman signed
2016-07-08 07:14:04 -0700

Rona Fried signed
2016-07-08 07:13:13 -0700

It’s way past time to get serious about climate change, Democrats. Fracking does NOT reduce emissions because of the methane released and it pollutes our water and air.

Corey E. Olsen signed
2016-07-08 06:53:54 -0700

Corey E. Olsen

Jason Nichols signed
2016-07-08 06:32:34 -0700

Glen Etzkorn signed
2016-07-08 06:31:50 -0700

Glen Etzkorn

Barry Oaks signed
2016-07-08 06:29:27 -0700

Barry Oaks

Joe Rogers signed
2016-07-08 06:25:56 -0700

Karen Cignoli signed
2016-07-08 06:22:53 -0700

Nina Pykare signed
2016-07-08 06:22:40 -0700

Fracking is bad for the underground water supply and our country. We should stop it!

Cindy Reynolds signed
2016-07-08 06:06:46 -0700

end fracking now!!!! Hasn’t enough of our water been contaminated yet?